DSD Strategic Plan
2007-2010
Presented to Select Committee on Social
Services
08th May 2007
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Presentation outline
• Part A
– Overview
– Strategic Perspective
• Part B
– MTEF Social Development Sector priorities
• Part C
– Strategic Outputs for 2007
– Challenges
• Part D
– Budget Alignment
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Part A
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CONTEXT
• Challenges facing the department of Social Development
and the sector are varied.
• Poverty, unemployment, inequality and absence of essential
services and their concomitant social ills are common
denominators that cut across most of these challenges
• The complexity of the challenges is further exacerbated by
– the fact that developmental social services is labour intensive, and
– depends largely on skilled social workers and community
development practitioners,
– both these professionals are in short supply to meet the service
delivery demand
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CONTEXT
• In addressing these challenges, the Department identified
three client categories
– Poor
– Vulnerable and
– Marginalised groups
• Central priority of the department is the development of
policies, legislation and systems to ensure provision of a
range of social services to meet the socio-economic needs
of the poorest, marginalised and most vulnerable within the
constraints of available resources
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DSD Strategic Perspective
• The department has premised its strategies and
services on two platforms:
– services that deal with assisting society to deal with
what they are currently experiencing as a result of
poverty and social dislocation and
– strategies to deal with the factors that give rise to and
sustain poverty, inequality and social discord.
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Vision
A caring and integrated system of social development
services that facilitates human development
and improves the quality of life.
Mission
To ensure the provision of comprehensive, integrated,
sustainable and quality social development services
against vulnerability and poverty and create an enabling
environment for sustainable development in partnership
with those committed to building a caring society.
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Strategic Priorities
• Create an enabling
environment for social and
human capital investment.
• Promotion of social
integration.
• Social protection initiatives to
build the capacity of
vulnerable groups.
• Provide a comprehensive
social security system.
• Leadership in social development to
ensure the deepening of the social
policy discourse and evidence-based
decision-making.
• Effective and efficient management of
social development programmes and
activities in partnership with civil
society and other social partners.
• Steering national involvement in
African and International frameworks
and agreements with respect to socioeconomic development.
• Good governance.
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Functional areas per programme
• Programme 1: Administration
– To provide for policy and strategic direction by the ministry and top
management and for overall management and support services to the
department.
• Programme 2: Comprehensive Social Security
– Ensure the development of norms and standards, facilitate financial and
economic planning and monitor compliance with social assistance
policy prescripts for the provision of a comprehensive system of social
security.
– Facilitate the payment of Social Assistance to households.
– Programme 3: Policy Development, Review and Implementation
Support for Welfare
– Create an enabling environment for the delivery and accessibility of
integrated social welfare services in partnership with all relevant
stakeholders.
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Functional areas per programme
• Programme 4: Community Development
– Develop and facilitate the implementation of appropriate policies,
strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening the potential of
communities, including youth, to sustain and improve their
livelihoods and further human development.
• Programme 5: Strategy and Governance
– Foster operational efficiency through improved alignment between
mandates, strategies and institutional capacity.
– Provide strategic guidance on social policy development, coordination and evaluation
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Part B
MTEF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SECTOR PRIORITIES
2007/08 to 2009/10
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MTEF PRIORITIES
2007/08 TO 2009/10
Social Welfare Services: Delivery Obligations
• Consolidation of services to children
– Children's Act, 2005
– Children’s Bill (s 76)
– Child Justice Bill
• Consolidation of services to Older Persons
– Older Person’s Act, 2006
• Consolidate services deriving from cross-cutting legislation
– Domestic Violence Act, 1998
– Social Assistance Act, 2004
– Prevention & Treatment of Substance Abuse Act
– Probation Services Act, 1991
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Part C
Strategic Outputs per Programme
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Comprehensive Social Security
• PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE:
– To enhance the human well-being of all through measures that
address income poverty through adequate incomes throughout
a person’s life-cycle, including equity and efficiency of
benefits
– Social Assistance
• Facilitate progressive realisation of all Social Security rights through
the following:
–
–
–
–
Develop tools to facilitate uniformity in assessing disability
Revise policy on comprehensive social security for children
Develop policies and strategies on income support for families
Create social protection measures for youth
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Comprehensive Social Security
– Social Assistance (Cont…)
• Re-engineering of the Social Relief funds
– Present policy proposal for consolidation of social relief funds into a
single institutional arrangement
– Reduce of turn around time to process application to 2 months
– Social Insurance
• Draft legislation to effect reform of retirement provisions
• Social Budget
– Undertake a comprehensive social budget exercise covering public and
private investments in social services.
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SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
• PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE:
– To develop, facilitate and monitor the implementation
of policies, strategies and programmes on integrated
social welfare services that meet the needs of all
vulnerable groups.
– Transformation of Welfare Service delivery:
• Develop Policies and strategies focusing on
– social welfare services to vulnerable children including children
with special needs and orphans
– victims of crime and domestic violence, and
– programmes to promote functional families
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SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
– Transformation of Welfare Service delivery (cont):
• Review and implementation of relevant legislation
and policies
–
–
–
–
Develop legislation on social services
Table Substance abuse legislation in parliament
Facilitate implementation of Older Persons Act of 2006
Complete regulations for the implementation of the Child
Care Act, 2005
– Develop costing models for the finalisation of policy on
disability
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SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
– Transformation of Welfare Service delivery (cont):
• Development of norms and standards
– Develop norms and standards for social service provision
– Develop norms and standards for out-patient and community
based services for treatment of substance abuse
– Develop minimum standards for services to people with
disabilities
– Develop integrated guidelines for rehabilitation of persons with
disabilities
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SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
– Transformation of Welfare Service delivery (cont):
• Development of capacity for delivery of social services
– Implement the recruitment and retention strategy for social workers
– Coordinate training of service providers on the Integrated Service
Delivery Model
– Coordinate training of service providers in the field of substance abuse
– Conduct capacity building programmes for service providers within the
disability sector
– Conduct capacity building programmes for probation and assistant
probation officers
– Train Home Community Based Care project managers on management
principles
– Capacitate residential care service providers on management of
HIV&AIDS
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SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
– Transformation of Welfare Service delivery (cont):
• Implementation support for Welfare Services
– Create linkage of district social services offices with the
National Child Protection Register.
– Improve foster care and residential care services
– Establish a database for adoptable children and prospective
adoptive parents
– Develop an implementation plan on the SA Victims Charter of
Rights.
– Develop HIV&AIDS management programme for children and
youth in residential care
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
• PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE:
– To develop, monitor and facilitate the implementation of appropriate
policies, strategies and programmes aimed at sustainable livelihoods and
human development.
– Development of Anti- Poverty Strategy in collaboration with the Social
Sector
– Develop Community Development Policy
– Improve conditions of service for community development practitioners
• Implement the recommended salary levels for CDPs
• Develop norms and standards for CDPs
• Standardise education and training for Community development
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
– Improved governance and institutional capacity of NPOs
– Improve Regulatory framework
– Cost the revised legislation
– Registration and compliance of registered organisations
– Reduce turn around time for registration of NPOs to two months
– Improve compliance with NPO Act
– De-register non-complying organisations
– Enhance institutional capacity of the sector
– Conduct training
– Institutionalize platform for dialogue between government and NPO sector
– Create an environment to access information on registered organisations.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
– Develop framework to link DSD programmes with
Sustainable Livelihoods Approach.
• Develop conceptual document on Sustainable livelihoods Approach
• Develop strategy to link grants to livelihoods and cooperatives
– Promote and support youth development and the
massification of the National Youth Programme
• Cost the Integrated Youth Development Plan
• Escalate the implementation of the National Youth Service
Programme
• Develop the Integrated Youth Development Strategy
• Professionalise Youth Work
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SPECIAL PROGRAMMES:EPWP
•
Expanded Public Works Programme within the Social Sector
– Expanded Public Works Programme: Sector Coordination
• Manage and coordinate of Social Sector Expanded Public Works
Programme
• Develop mainstreaming framework and guidelines for integrating EPWP in
the Social Sector.
• Develop strategy for the massification and sustainability of EPWP jobs
– Implementation of the EPWP within ECD and HCBC
• Develop and implement training module for HCBC accredited by the
HWSETA
• Train care givers and offer stipends
• Fast track registration of new ECD sites in line with EPWP business plan.
• Develop M&E system for ECD and HCBC
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STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE
• PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE:
– To ensure good governance, operational and enhance service
delivery efficiency capacity within the department and the
sector.
– Improved governance and oversight of public entities
• Ensure transfer of funds in line with mandate and delivery goals
• Develop regulatory framework for the management of interface
• Establish and review key institutions that report to the minister
– Strategy development, business and programme performance
• Align DSD strategic plan with public service priorities, planning cycle and
Treasury regulations
• Standardize annual performance plan and long term strategy framework
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STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE
– Monitoring and Evaluation
– Develop integrated monitoring and evaluation framework
– Implement the institutional performance measurement framework
– Detail plans for development of Integrated systems for social welfare
and community development services
– Social policy development and coordination
– Policy coordination, integration and analysis framework is available
– Develop collaboration framework with academia on policy
formulation, coordination and analysis
– Promotion and implementation of population policy
– Enhance awareness and understanding of population and
development trends and dynamics
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Strategic Challenges
• Ongoing, yet constructive debates around the values attached to social
security.
– On the one hand there is a fear that we will develop a citizen with a
dependency culture; on the other hand there is no doubt about
government’s commitment to the plight of the poor and the objective of
building a better life for all.
– This poses a challenge for us in that there is a constituency that still needs
to be convinced of the value add of social security policies.
– It is for this reason that the department will continue to invest in research
which will continue to inform us of the benefits and unintended
consequences of our programmes
• Redressing the historical under-funding of developmental social services still
remains the greatest challenge.
– The achievement of the above-mentioned priorities will depend on
adequate funding being received.
– The new allocations is a positive step is addressing this legacy
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Strategic Challenges
• Non – compliance with the NPO Act.
– The Department is in the process of appointing additional staff members
to enhance its capacity to administer and monitor approx. 40 000 NPOs
currently registered.
• The slow process of filling of posts.
– In order to achieve a reasonable vacancy rate the current vacancy rate will
be reduced by 10% each progressive year.
– We have reviewed our Recruitment and Selection Policy with the
intention of shortening the turn around time of recruitment in the
Department.
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Strategic Challenges
• Financial administration of the social assistance function poses
many challenges due to dual responsibilities between SASSA
and the Department which impacts on accountability.
– We are working with National Treasury and SASSA to come up with
measures to manage the risk
• Lack of effective management information systems for social
welfare and community development programmes, limit our
capacity to monitoring and evaluation
– The integrity of the non-financial data provided by provinces is
questionable
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MTEF GROWTH TRENDS
• Total additional allocation over MTEF is R683
million
• Total budget grows at an average rate of 8,3% p.a.
• Socdev budget, excl transfers to SASSA & NDA
grows at average rate of 27,5% p.a.
–
–
–
–
–
Prog 1
Prog 2
Prog 3
Prog 4
Prog 5
:
:
:
:
:
7,3%
8,9%
56,3%
6,8%
30,1%
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MTEF GROWTH TRENDS
• Additional allocations were mainly for:
– Social dev policy implementation support
(R45m: 07/08; R48m: 08/09; R59m: 09/10)
– Oversight & Support of key institutions
(R10m: 07/08; R10m: 08/09; R11m: 09/10)
– Implementation of MIS - SASSA
(R70m: 07/08; R20m: 08/09; R20m: 09/10)
– Integrated MIS – Welfare Services
(R25m: 07/08; R0m: 08/09; R0m: 09/10)
– Social Worker Scholarships
(R50m: 07/08; R105m: 08/09; R210m: 09/10)
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BUDGET COMPARISON
R 79,269,425
R 80,000,000
R 70,000,000
R 73,220,351
R 67,232,108
R 62,005,460
R 60,000,000
R 50,000,000
R 40,000,000
R 30,000,000
R 20,000,000
R 10,000,000
R0
2006/07
2007/08
2008/09
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2009/10
Earmarked Funds 2006/07 – 2009/10
2006/07
R’000
2007/08
R’000
2008/09
R’000
2009/10
R’000
Amount Voted 2007 - ENE
62 005 460
67 232 108
73 220 351
79 269 425
- Special Allocations
61 591 560
66 637 583
72 609 571
78 615 960
8 678
9 389
10 125
11 156
Social Assistance Transfers
57 720 109
62 440 058
68 034 762
73 628 895
Admin of Social Assistance
3 584 320
3 760 010
4 115 236
4 403 453
10 000
10 000
10 000
10 000
Emergency Disaster Relief
5 000
5 000
5 000
5 000
Walvis Bay Project
5 441
5 713
6 227
6 538
National Development Agency
123 012
129 163
136 267
144 782
Establishment of SASSA
135 000
158 250
166 954
176 136
96 086
154 487
157 525
166 189
SASSA (MIS)
-
70 000
20 000
20 000
Social Workers Bursaries
-
50 000
105 000
210 000
413 900
594 525
610 780
653 465
Devolution of Public Works Funds
Disaster Relief
Grant Administration Integrity
TOTAL OPERATIONAL BUDGET
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Budget Allocation per Programme
(excl Public Entities) - 2007/08
P 3:Pol Dev Welfare
39%
P 2: Soc Sec
10%
P 1:Admin
27%
P 5:Strat & Gov
17%
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P 4:Comm Develop
7%
2007 ESTIMATES OF NATIONAL
EXPENDITURE (ENE)
2003/04
2004/05
2005/06
Audited
Administration
2006/07
Adjusted
Approp
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
Medium-term Estimates
78,616
91,624
105,128
125,873
138,902
146,418
155,340
39,049,965
47,471,591
54,703,563
61,950,147
66,638,839
72,554,909
78,459,673
24,082
38,795
83,772
104,131
198,976
265,122
383,588
Community Development
186,406
130,457
142,316
156,689
167,528
174,201
185,614
Strategy and Governance
18,203
33,800
33,061
45,585
87,863
79,701
85,210
39,357,272
47,766,267
55,067,840
62,382,425
67,232,108
73,220,351
79,269,425
Comprehensive Social
Security
Policy Development, Review
and Implementation Support
for Welfare Services
TOTAL
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2007 ADDITIONAL FUNDS
ALLOCATED
2007/08
R’000
PROGRAMME
Administration
2008/09
R’000
2009/10
R’000
2 664
2 842
3 494
Comprehensive Social Security
70 000
20 000
20 000
Policy Development, Review and
Implementation Support for Welfare
Services
90 336
147 958
265 121
Community Development
7 483
7 683
8 434
Strategy and Governance
29 517
4 517
4 966
200 000
183 000
300 000
TOTAL
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Programme 3: Policy Development, Review and
Implementation Support for Welfare Services
2007/08
R’000
Service Standards
2008/09
R’000
2009/10
R’000
57 160
112 418
217 698
Substance Abuse and Central Drug
Authority
8 200
8 610
9 041
Children
8 062
8 465
8 888
Families
1 950
2 048
2 150
Social Crime Prevention
1 615
1 696
1 781
HIV and Aids
4 953
5 201
5 461
Service Provider Support and
Management
5 296
6 266
14 669
90 336
147 958
263 105
Policy Development, Review and
Implementation Support for Welfare
Services
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Programme 4: Community Development
2007/08
R’000
2008/09
R’000
2009/10
R’000
Registration and Institutional Capacity Building
of NPOs
5 483
5 483
6 034
Youth
2 000
2 200
2 400
Community Development
7 483
7 683
8 434
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Programme 5: Strategy and Governance
2007/08
R’000
Strategy Development, Business and Programme
Performance
2008/09
R’000
2009/10
R’000
4 517
4 517
4 966
Special Projects Coordination
25 000
-
-
Strategy and Governance
29 517
4 517
4 966
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PRELIMINARY
OUTCOME OF
2006/07
FINANCIAL YEAR
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NATIONAL
DEPARTMENT
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PRELIMINARY OUTCOME OF THE SPENDING OF THE
NATIONAL DEPARTMENT FOR 2006/07
99,35%
Estimated
Spending
70,000,000
60,000,000
50,000,000
40,000,000
R 62,382,425
R 61,979,556
30,000,000
20,000,000
10,000,000
0
Final Voted
Expenditure
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EXPENDITURE PER PROGRAMME
2006/07
Programme
Final Voted
R’ 000
P1: Administration
Preliminary
outcome
R’ 000
%
Spent
Estimated
deviation
R’000
116,590
114,780
98.45%
1,810
48,866
53,341
94.56%
2,325
61, 912,480
61,529,987
99.30%
382,493
P4: Social Welfare Services
104 ,131
97,243
93,39%
1,238
P5: Development and Research
172,516
168,321
97.57%
4,195
27,842
15,884
57,05%
10,808
62,382,425
61,979,556
99,35%
402,869
P2: Comprehensive Social
Protection
P3: Social Security Transfers
and Administration*
P6: Strategy, Regulatory and
Oversight Management
TOTAL
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SOCIAL ASSISTANCE TRANSFERS
R 57,580,090
R 57,720,109
58,000,000
53,000,000
99,8%
Transferred
48,000,000
43,000,000
38,000,000
33,000,000
28,000,000
Voted
Transferred
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PRELIMINARY OUTCOME OF THE SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE TRANSFER EXPENDITURE FOR
THE 2006/07 FINANCIAL YEAR
Province
Budget allocation
for 2006/07
R'000
Eastern Cape
Revised Budget
Allocation for
2006/07
R'000
Preliminary
outcome 2006/07
% spend
R'000
Estimated
Deviations at end of
March 2007
R'000
11,185,880
10,825,880
10,740,571
99.2%
85,309
Free State
4,149,493
3,779,493
3,706,379
98.1%
73,114
Gauteng
7,293,891
6,808,891
6,745,249
99.1%
63,642
13,163,044
14,063,044
14,026,932
99.7%
36,112
Limpopo
7,486,785
7,676,785
7,635,770
99.5%
41,015
Mpumalanga
3,877,117
3,952,117
3,928,449
99.4%
23,668
Northern Cape
1,362,507
1,312,507
1,284,968
97.9%
27,539
North West
4,925,345
4,950,345
4,940,499
99.8%
9,846
Western Cape
4,276,047
4,351,047
4,328,799
99.5%
22,248
57,720,109
57,720,109
57,337,616
99.3%
382,493
Kwazulu-Natal
TOTAL
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STATUS OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
EXPENDITURE FOR THE 2006/07 FINANCIAL
YEAR
• Adjustments have been made to the initial budget
allocations to the provincial Departments of Social
Development based on the actual cash flow
requirements.
• A preliminary net saving to an estimated amount of
R382,493 million is projected up to the end of the
2006/07 financial year.
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PROVINCIAL
DEPARTMENTS
OF
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
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PRELIMINARY OUTCOME OF THE PROVINCIAL
DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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